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Brett and Kate McKay | June 19, 2015

Last updated: May 27, 2018

Fatherhood, Relationships & Family

The Importance of Fathers (According to Science)

Brett and Kate McKay | June 19, 2015 / Last updated: May 27, 2018

Last updated: May 27, 2018

Fatherhood, Relationships & Family

In 1960, only 10% of children were raised without a father in the home.

Today, 40% are.

Today, 40% are.

Children With Fathers Are Less Likely to Live in Poverty

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 44% of children in mother-only families were living in poverty, compared to only 12% of children living in a household headed by a married couple.

The U.S. Department of Health has reported similar statistics that connect absent fathers with poverty.

In a 2012 report, they found that children living in female-headed households with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6%, over 4 times the rate of married-couple families.

The U.S. Department of Health has reported similar statistics that connect absent fathers with poverty.

In a 2012 report, they found that children living in female-headed households with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6%, over 4 times the rate of married-couple families.

Children With Fathers Do Better in School

A 2001 study by the Department of Education showed that students whose fathers were highly involved at school were 43% more likely to receive A’s.

This was true for fathers in biological parent families, for stepfathers, and for fathers heading single-parent families.

Children Without Fathers Are More Likely to Do Jail Time

A report in the Journal of Marriage and Family showed that even after controlling for community context, there is significantly more drug use among children who live in father-absent homes.

Children Without Fathers Are More Likely to Be Sexually Active as Teenagers

A recent study showed that involved dads have twice the influence as moms on reducing teen sex.

Children Without Fathers Are More Likely to Be Obese

Children in father-absent homes have a higher risk of becoming obese and suffer all the health risks that come with excess weight.

But even if dad is around, it doesn’t necessarily mean his kids will be fit.

In fact, several studies report that fathers have the biggest impact on the overall fitness and weight of their children.

Children With Fathers Get More Roughhousing (And Roughhousing Makes Kids Awesome)

But even if dad is around, it doesn’t necessarily mean his kids will be fit.

In fact, several studies report that fathers have the biggest impact on the overall fitness and weight of their children.

Cross-cultural studies have found that the one thing fathers across the world have in common is that they roughhouse with their kids more than moms.

And roughhousing, according to science, makes kids awesome.

As we highlighted in a previous post, roughhousing makes kids resilient, smart, moral, and socially adept.

Children With Fathers Are More Likely to Have a Larger Vocabulary

As Paul Raeburn highlights in his book Do Fathers Matter?, recent research suggests that dads actually play just as an important, if not more important, role in the verbal fluency of their children.

Professor Lynne Vernon-Feagans and her team conducted a study to measure parental influence on early childhood verbal development.

The surprising result from this study was that fathers, not mothers, had much more of an influence on a child’s verbal adeptness.

Children With Fathers Are More Likely to Be Encouraged to Take Healthy Risks

While mothers tend to focus on their child’s safety and well-being, dads are more likely to encourage risk and independent thinking in their children which will benefit them well into adulthood.

As family and marriage researcher Professor Brad Wilcox has noted, researchers have found that dads are more likely than moms to encourage their kids to talk to strangers, take on challenges, and to think for themselves.

Children With Fathers Gain Many Additional Benefits to Health and Happiness

The Grant Study, the longest longitudinal study ever done on the lives of men, found that a man’s father influenced his life in many ways exclusive to his relationship with his mother.

Loving fathers imparted to their sons:

enhanced capacity to play more enjoyment of vacations greater likelihood of being able to use humor as a healthy coping mechanismbetter adjustment to, and contentment with, life after retirementless anxiety and fewer physical and mental symptoms under stress in young adulthood

enhanced capacity to play

more enjoyment of vacations

greater likelihood of being able to use humor as a healthy coping mechanism

better adjustment to, and contentment with, life after retirement

less anxiety and fewer physical and mental symptoms under stress in young adulthood

In the negative column, it “was not the men with poor mothering but the ones with poor fathering who were significantly more likely to have poor marriages over their lifetimes.”

Men who lacked a positive relationship with their fathers were also “much more likely to call themselves pessimists and to report having trouble letting others get close.”

Well, what do you know?

God knew what He was doing when He created Fathers...

My dad, the guy who consciously decided to open his home to me, taught me three things...

It was a hard pill to swallow....

Faithfulness to Church, family, friends and neighbors.

Hard work

How to love (my wife in particular)

Need - Now, more than ever, we need men to step in and step up!

We need Godly men who are not ashamed of their God or the all important role God has called them to play.

Bridging Sentences - It is interesting that the world, while in many ways is fighting against it, also is realizing the need for good men to be good fathers.

Our children do not need bad, absent, angry, jerk to their mother, fathers.

In fact, what our children and wives really need are men who love Jesus more than anything!

Our wives, our children, our charter township, our country needs not just good men to stand up and do what is right, but Godly guys who will ACT LIKE MEN!

Yes, today we celebrate men.

It is good to be a man!

It’s even better to be a godly man and better still to be a godly man who serves and invests in the next generation of potential followers of Jesus.

Modifier: Godly

But in order for this to happen, we must understand what it means to be God’s kind of man!

Textual Idea: Paul wants the men at Corinth to act accordingly.

He tells them in verses 13-14 what a Godly man looks like...

Sermon Idea: Act Like Men- God’s Way!

Interrogative: How?

Transition: Four ways.

Four characteristics found in these verses that show men how to act in a godly way.

And the first way is...

Body (Satisfaction)

1. Act Like a Watchful Man

Explanation - Literally “Be watchful” means to be on your guard.

Unfortunately we can easily get distracted from what it important...

Barney Fife always thought very highly of himself in his line of work, but He was the worst...

“The Rock”

Unfortunately, we as men can be like ole’ Deputy Barney Fife!

Over confident that we’ve got things well under control or maybe a little bumbling when it comes to doing our job as guards?

Paul is challenging the men in particular to be on guard.

This, of course begs the question, what are they to be watching out for?

Two potential ideas...

The return of the Lord

The guy would have been watchful had he known when the criminal was to break into his home.

And we are to be watchful knowing at an minute the Lord will return...

-11-13

2. Be on guard against the ever present threats to the faith...

The

Illustration - Men, Dads!

One of the biggest responsibilities you have is to be a guard in front of the spiritual house God has called you to protect…I know there are many guys in this room have provisions to protect their home.

They have a tremendous arsenal of weapons.

In fact some of the homes represented here this morning, well, it just would not go well for those who who might break into said home…You are well protected!

As you should be!